Hugh Schofield
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419 appearances
33 recordings
3 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 27 Aug
Hugh Schofield’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It is the first time that breast cancer has been officially recognised in France as an occupational illness of flight crews.
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The connection spelled out in the court is threefold.
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First, when this lady started and they were still smoking on planes.
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The other thing is nighttime working.
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There's evidence that suggests that nighttime working d disrupts women's body clocks and so on, which can be an aggravating factor in bre breast cancer.
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But
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But the third thing is cosmic radiation.
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Cosmic rays, the same sort of things that cause the northern lights, for example, which are of particular danger to flight crews.
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Why?
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Because they're flying at very high altitudes, and also because a lot of long haul flights are going over the poles, particularly the North Pole for Air France, which is where these charged particles from cosmic radiation concentrate.
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Is protected by the the Earth's magnetic shield, but not at the poles.
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So this scientific detail is what's been adduced in this case.
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So doctors have examined her extensively, obviously, and th there's no genetic particular risk in her family, and there was no lifestyle risk attached to the way she was living, and so on.
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So the court has decided that it therefore there is enough evidence to suggest that it
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it was occupationally linked.
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And it is, of course, a big victory for her, but you know, more to the point in a way is how this might then open the gates for more similar claims.
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And there is growing evidence from medical studies that show that there is a higher level of risk of breast cancer attaching to flight crews than there is to the general population.
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The latest is good news, frankly.
They've been stabilising over the last three or four days, since the weekend really, and now for the first time the authorities down there are talking about light at the end of the tunnel.
We're no longer seeing a fire in the conventional sense, certainly not like what we saw at the weekend with vast swathes of forest burning.
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